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The Price of Iron Ore: Relocating an Entire City in Sweden
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The Price of Iron Ore: Relocating an Entire City in Sweden

26 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Kiruna, Sweden sits on top of the world's largest underground iron ore deposit, and the mine that built the city is now slowly swallowing it. DW Documentary follows the relocation of Kiruna's wooden church, voted Sweden's most beautiful building, as it is hauled kilometers away on a flatbed in a move staged as a public festival. Stefan Holmblad Johansson, who oversees the relocation for mining company LKAB, has a personal stake in the building beyond his job. Not everyone shares the celebratory mood: Lina Brännström, who grew up near the old center, now avoids it, describing streets of empty buildings and demolition rubble where promises were made and not kept. Her music association, housed for thirty years in a listed building, has no relocation plan and no replacement space. Miner Jari Söyrinki reflects on a town whose fortunes have always been tied to the mine, now watching that same mine take priority over the community it sustains. The film asks whether Kiruna is becoming a real home or just a backdrop.